Btooom! Concepts

Bathing Scenes, while occasionally meaningful to plot or character development, are generally excuses for fan service.

What is anime without the over-sexualization of women's breasts?

Convenient Censorship such as steam, hair and beams of light are often used in anime and manga to show naked characters while obscuring their "naughty bits".

What someone does when upset/sad. Sometimes people can also cry from sheer joy.

I think I liked it better when you weren't around...

The loss of limbs and body parts is a common concept in many of the more violent Japanese manga and anime.

Drama is a concept used in story telling to invoke an emotional reaction from the audience by using serious themes; such as tragedy, suspense, and death.

The imaginary events that goes on in your head when you are asleep. In some anime's they can bring important messages or to haunt a person.

Explosions are featured in a wide array of anime/manga, created from various weapons/attacks.

The act of someone giving or receiving their first kiss, or a particular couple kissing for the first time.

Used frequently in Anime to either recap past events or provide a back story for a character, either their origin story or their off-screen training of new attack. Sometime and entire episode/chapter would be a entire flashback.

Just your average person!

Karma is the belief that one's actions influenced the outcome one's life. If the person does bad things, bad things will occur to that person. (Vice Versa with the good things.)

Kissing is the act of pressing your lips to the body of another person. This can be on the cheeks, head, hand, but more commonly to another person's lips.

Like real life, anime and manga characters lose their innocence through war, trauma, rape, torture, and many agonizing scenarios.

Common visual conventions seen in manga and anime to convey emotions, often for comical effect.

The act of taking another person's life.

People who have no conscious or concept or right and wrong (or do but choose wrong on purpose) and draw pleasure from the harming and even killing of others. They are usually portrayed as being completely heartless and beyond redemption of any kind.

This concept applies to two groups of characters: Rapists, those who committed this horrible crime, and Rape victims, those who have been raped. (Let us be VERY clear this page is intended as a SERIOUS concept and hentai related images are not wanted on this page.)

The term generally used when anime is broadcast--usually online--in countries outside of Japan around the same time as it airs in Japan, usually within one week or even within 24 hours.

Suicide is the act of taking ones own life through various means.

A story or event centered around human misery. Characters in the story face suffering, dread, and destruction.

Tyrannos Japan is the video game company that developed Btooom! in the Btooom! franchise.